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originally posted by: Harpua
a reply to: FyreByrd
The immigration "problem" is closely related with our foreign policy. It is not a straw man argument, it shows causation and responsibility for the "problem.
And to address other critiques of my thread title or the premise of the study, while not all white conservatives are racists, I'd venture to guess that all white racists are conservative. Trump stokes those fires intentionally and the racists love it. To support him without acknowledging this and opposing this aspect of his personality and policy is troubling.
I voted for Obama but was sickened by his paying wall st criminals and bombing nations we aren't at war with.
What I don't see happening with Trump supporters is their willingness to call him out for the morally reprehensible things he says which further stokes the flames of racists.
Pocohantas, mexican rapists and killers, # hole countries... every time he says something like this, people on here defend him in every way imaginable instead of saying, yeah, thats wrong... but I like his tax cuts, so I don't care.
That at least would be intellectually honest.
originally posted by: Harpua
a reply to: infolurker
"In practice, the GOP has increasingly been embracing a politics of white resentment tied to disenfranchisement. "Since Richard Nixon's ‘Southern Strategy,’ the GOP has pigeon-holed itself as, in large part, an aggrieved white people's party,"
As I mentioned earlier: not all conservatives are racist, but a vast majority of racists are conservative.
I am white, but not conservative. I prefer to judge people based on their merits or lack thereof.
originally posted by: toysforadults
originally posted by: loam
originally posted by: FyreByrd
...and have friends who'll tell us when we are being inconsistant with our values.
I take it that hasn't happened for you.
IMO they are pushing a narrative and to me it looks disingenuous and purposeful.
That's just my opinion though, probably wrong but I also doubt I have to tell you that.
For instance, people who said they did not want to live next door to immigrants or to people of another race were more supportive of the idea of military rule, or of a strongman-type leader who could ignore legislatures and election results.
Is there concern by Trump supporters on here that they will be marginalized if minorities, women, homosexuals etc have the same rights as them?
originally posted by: rexsblues
For instance, people who said they did not want to live next door to immigrants or to people of another race were more supportive of the idea of military rule, or of a strongman-type leader who could ignore legislatures and election results.
Dems are the only ones who seem to be ignoring legislatures and election results.
Is there concern by Trump supporters on here that they will be marginalized if minorities, women, homosexuals etc have the same rights as them?
There are plenty of minorities, women, homosexuals ect, who are Trump supporters. All Trump supporters aren't white men.
I am simply opposed to being pushed around by authoritatians.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: FyreByrd
I said nothing about the study.
I said everything about the purpose it was put to. You know jack-all about the intolerant whites, their political leanings and voting patterns. The newspaper article in question takes old data and draws a heck of a faulty logic leap to decide that all those people in the data are automatically Trump voters and conservative. *That's* the fake news angle here.
God is Love -> Love is Blind -> Ray Charles is Blind -> Ray Charles is God!
That's the sort of logic chain this article constructs and you want to buy it because you so desperately need to believe that anyone who didn't support Hillary had to have some nefarious, evil motive for it.